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Thursday, June 23, 2016

TypeAy Sends: Whistling Death: The Corsair

I confess, I had wanted to be a Soldier since I was knee high, so I never did give much thought to vintage military aircraft. Growing up in Columbus with Wright Pat down the road, by rights I should have paid more attention. Maybe it is a touch of sentimentality I am getting in my old age, but I am starting to see the romance with these obsolete war birds .

These machines were made in a time well before computers and certain air superiority. Even if you cannot appreciate the birds, you can sure appreciate the grit for the men that flew them.

mike, remember the af museum is also at wpab.10 years ago, i went by the south dayton airport.there was a navy blue f4u there.the problem is, it was at a 45 degree angle, nose in the concrete.must have done a number on that prop.also, my father was a AO1(aviation ordnance) usn pacific. 1940-45.he loaded munitions on aircraft like f4u.

Hi Matt and Mike,To "anymouse" at 7:55AM.....If ya' still had that "Wen-Mac" Corsair in yer archives...that would be a doozie!! I still have a couple of "OLD" model airplane engines and they still work!! 'Have an "O.K. Cub .049" "A" model with the big red plastic gas tank and the front venturi/needle valve I got for my birthday in "1957!!!!" Back then small .049's only cost $3.95 ea.!!!The "Corsair," P-51 Mustang, F-8 Bearcat, P-38 Lightning among others .."Great Planes" Check out the "National Championship Air Races" at Reno on You Tube Vids!! Voodoo" is a highly modified Mustang and is current "Top Dog!!" One vid has you in the cockpit from taxi roll out thru the flight, landing and shutdown !!!! Fly Fast and Low...Turn Left!!Blue skies,skybill-out

I believe some Corsairs were built in Akron, Ohio.There's a museum at the airport in an old hanger, the Military Air Preservation Society ( MAPS).The have a cockpit fuselage section of a Corsair. If in the area, check it out. Well worth the visit. Papa

The "Bent Wing" was one hell of a bird ! Designed by humans, it embodied many of their frailties as well. But the USN, Vought, the English and the USMC persisted and it became a front-line carrier fighter, and later a fighter bomber persisting into the jet era. Big, unforgiving and hard to fly it was also tough, durable and - when not hauling almost as much weight in bombs, rockets, MG ammo and fuel as many WW2 medium bombers - it was FAST from sea level to the mid-twenties. !

Hi Mike and Matt,To "Moe" I know what you mean bout the "Tomcat" and the "Warthog!!" I was a "Parachute Rigger" for Uncle Leroy's "F14 IRAN" Project in '76. Got one "Save!!" Also worked for McDonnell-Douglas on the ACES II program....Ejection seats in the F-15, F-16, A-10 and B-1B .Got "saves" from all 4!!!!! One day in the shop at Douglas, the phone rang 4 times with report of "Punch out's!!!" There was a lot of Beer Glasses raised high at the "Waterin' Hole" that night!! Not quite Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club!! but a good facsimile!!!Got Gunz....OUTLAW!!!!,III%,skybill-out

My Dad was on carriers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic during the Korean War. While at sea, he took tons of 8mm color movies, including footage of flight operations. His ships carried Corsairs. He was on the Roosevelt, the Bennington, and the Lake Champlain.

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On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

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From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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